Cynthia Lopez

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As the Beltway wise men all lined up behind a war, the people spoke loudly against it — and humiliated the elites<p>As President Obama apparently submits to domestic and international pressure to back off his plan for an immediate war with Syria, prepare to hear the standard Multidimensional Chess™ …

The U.S. assumes National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden remains in Russia, and officials are working with Moscow in hopes he will be expelled and returned to America to face criminal charges. (June 24) AP

The next time he fights with his girlfriend, he won't be so cocky.<p>A drunk man in Jilong, Taiwan reportedly used scissors to cut off his own penis and testicles during an argument with his girlfriend, according to Chinese newspaper Kwong Wah Yit Poh, as translated by The Toronto Star Online.<p>The …

<b>A postcard sent home by a captured WWI soldier has come to light 95 years after it was sent from a German prisoner of war camp.</b><p>Charles Jeffries sent the card from Limburg an der Lahn on 30 April, 1918 to let his family in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, know he had been taken prisoner.<p>His granddaughter, …

Rachel Maddow reports on the newly revised projections for the budget deficit showing the fastest deficit reduction under the Obama administration since World War II, and points out that the deficit was a top priority of Republicans in the 2012 election so we can surely expect them to praise the …

In addition the administration has come under heavy fire over the Justice Department's monitoring of phone records belonging to Associated Press journalists. All this has combined to create a perfect storm in the first year of Obama's second term, a wave of scandals that has been so damaging to the …